Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 58850
Help - about does not show full version number
Last modified: 2006-12-07 13:08:56 UTC
The Help - about dialog does not show the full version number, what should be 2.0.1. Using ctrl S-D-T to identify the Milestone / Build numer is no option, as the user would need to map milestone to version number but usually has not the knowledge to do so. To me, this is a stopper for 2.0.1, as comon users would not be able to tell the correct version number, when searching for help at the user lists or filing issues in issuezilla.
This is surely not stopper. But, yes, we should adopt About to contain the accurate version number, not only 2.0. Does StarOffice contain identification of the patchlevel in About?
No, Staroffice doesn't. You must use ctrl s-d-t to show this info. andreschnabel is right, when he says, that this info should be shown in the help-about-dialog.
@ mh: Please decide.
I only can second pavel: no stopper, but having in the about box a clear version number would help.
set target.
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Created attachment 32504 [details] proposed patch
the attached patch uses PACKAGEVERSION instead of PRODUCTVERSION. (the about-dialog reads the version-info from the configuration files)
I believe this should have been a stopper, as there is now the potential for confusion over which version is installed, and no easy way to check! I am disappointed to see the target is now OOo 2.0.3. Is there any way this could be sorted for 2.0.2?
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I don't think that Martin will fix the issue. Let me add Peter ot the CC list...
I have to agree. the full version number should be easy to find.
The version number was far more visible in 1.x. It was on the top of each window. It would seem sensible to put it back there.
Thats IMO nonsense. It's enough, when the full version number ( 2.01 instead of 2.0) with build number is seen in the about window.
It's not nonsense, it makes perfect sense. The user should always be concious of what version they are using. The splash screen only says '2.0' which many people would think to be different to 2.0.1 so most users would just say that they are using 2.0 if asked, as they would not have looked deeply for the actual version number. In 1.9.x builds it clearly gave the version number (in 1.9.x form) in the installer, now that has gone, all there is is 2.0 in 2.0.1. Many users just won't know what version they are running unless it says so more explicitly. If people think they are using 2.0 when they aren't, this is going to cause a lot of problems for issue reporting in future as issues will be mismarked as 2.0.0 whereas they should be a later version.
But not on the top of every window, as you wrote. That is nonsense. You may be right with the splash screen. I forgot it, because its always deactivated. But this is not so important an you should consider, that the splash is seen only a few seconds when OOo starts. With enabled quickstarter only once a time in a computer session. The about window is it. This would be like in other programs and therefor userfriendly.
this seems to be a subset of issue 11465, so maybe we can set that issue to depend on this one ?
I would like to see both the opening splash screen and the Help About screen prominently show the full version number and the build. When I installed OpenOffice.org the package name was openoffice.org2, the splash screen showed "OpenOffice.org 2.0", and Help About showed "OpenOffice.org 2.0". Only in the very small print on the very last line of the about screen was I able to tell that I was actually running version 1.9.something. In other words, I was being mislead about which version of OpenOffice.org was actually installed and running. This is not acceptable.
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with 36 votes, 8 duplicates and a proposed patch it would really make sense to set target to 2.0.2. mh: could you please consider to retarget
oops, I thought I already did this.
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changed string in about box as workaround (mh20137), we need a automated mechanism for the builds in 2.0.3, filed new issue 61849 for it.
verified.
may I asked what is wrong with the attached patch?
OOo 2.0.2 found in Help-about, OOo 2.0.2 RC1 ->closed
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